ACADEMIC SKILLS: COURSE OVERVIEW


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Study Skills
  • Motivation and goal setting: barriers and enablers
  • Time, task and stress management
  • Learning styles, active learning and collaborative learning

Reading
  • Reading strategies (pre-reading, skimming, scanning, note-making frameworks, clarifying meaning)
  • Text types and purposes
  • Distinguishing fact and opinion
  • Collaborative reading
  • Effective listening
  • Reading and following instructions

Writing
  • Writing for (brainstorming, note taking, reflection, reports, arguments, powerpoints)
  • Sentences, punctuation, paragraphs
  • 3-step writing strategy: define, brainstorm, organise

Assessment Information



Reading Skills

Writing Skills

Study Skills